Showing posts with label joy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joy. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Falling Into the Divine

And so it was that the devotee was so enamored of his Master that he fashioned his whole life after him. Wherever he walked, that was where the devotee wanted to be. He clung to every word, watched every expression, attempted to glean the subtleties of all the wisdoms the Wise One spoke. And when he was not physically near the object of his adoration, his heart was there, doting on how wonderful it would be to be in his Divine Presence.

One day the Master walked by the devotee’s place of work, and the devotee, in a moment of exhileration at catching unexpected site of his master, ran after him. He ran close, tagging at his heels, almost catching the bottom of the master’s robe in his hand. So immersed was he in his persuit that he did not notice the large root of a tree in the path, which reached up and snagged his ankle. Suddenly the devotee was off balance, careening headlong into the earth, making a thud on impact and raising a large cloud of dust.

The Master turned around, surprised by the commotion. The devotee looked up sheepishly, covered in dust, and exclaimed, “Oh Master, I am so ashamed, so ashamed that I have so foolishly fallen - fallen in your Divine Presence!”

The Master smiled, and compassionately said, “No, my son, you have not fallen in my presence. You have fallen in Your own Divine Presence.”

The devotee was puzzled at the Master’s statement, thinking, “Whatever can this mean? Fallen in my own Divine Presence? What can this possibly mean?”

And he spent the rest of his days pondering these words, using them as a koan, a mantra, and during his last moments in the physical he was still thinking of the Master and the meaning of his words.

And many lifetimes later, this same devotee found himself a small boy, in fact, in the same village. He had a special fondness for a young girl, who never failed to make his heart glow warmly and his eyes to become blind to all sights but of her. And as the little girl walked along the path, the boy excitedly ran after her, so happy to be close to her presence.

And suddenly a root from a tree reached up in the path, grabbed the boy by the ankle and toppled him, head over heals, into a pile of dust at the girl’s feet.

And she turned and saw the boy, in a heap and covered with dust, and laughed, “You silly boy, look at you, you are so foolish, you have fallen in my presence!”

And the boy rose quickly, brushed himself, and stood tall, saying, “Yes, I have fallen, but I have fallen in my Own Divine Presence!” And he laughed and put his hand over his mouth, wondering where this strange manner of speaking had come from.

The girl looked at him, and the boy looked back at her. And suddenly there was the recognition of a long forgotten but so familiar gaze, of someone he had adored and lost long ago; he viewed Himself.

And as he glanced about at the other children who had gathered, he saw the many reflections of Himself, all looking on, gazing with amazing compassion, at the dusty boy who finally remembered that he had fallen, fallen in his Own Divine Presence.

We are You

We are Here. We are you. We love. We are. We dance.
We are light. There is no mistaking our light. You know our essence, for you are as we are. You are creating the same joy and alignment with source in your dimension as we have in ours. This is your predilection: to create this state of heaven on earth. So dance in joy. Create, in happiness. Be happy with everything you do, with all your doings and beings. You cannot go wrong. You cannot miss the boat. You are the boat, the vessel of the new age. You are blending the vibrations of the earth plane, the third dimension, so that the upper dimensions are integrated with it. You will be walking as gods, human gods and angels, for all the dimensions will be accessed by you, and your fellow humans. You are on the cutting edge of change because you are Change, the change bringer. You are that which you are approaching and you are that which you are leaving, and you are the perfect integration of past and future in the present moment. You are the bringer of the New Age because you Are the New Age. You are the Renaissance Man. The Human Angel. The God Man. No less. All in joy. Every way you focus your joy will be yours for the taking. You will take it, and leave it, for there is no accumulating when you own all. When you ARE all. All is yours for the asking. And more. Imagine and it is. You are the bringer of the dawn; you have brought yourself, you are the dawn. See the morning sun of this lovely planet of mirth and joy? You see that clearly, the comforting, nurturing aspects of life embracing you in your physicality, your humanness. You are all. Thank you.

You know this. This is all.
Peace be with you.
Peace.

-The Angels

No Chance In This Matter

We are Here. We are here to share the splendors of your world which are largely untapped. They have been invisible to you for your mind is always focused on the accouterments of physicality - focused on getting more, experiencing new sensations which are really but a rehashing of the old. The True New is hardly every recognized. The True New pops up in your reality constantly, but you are asleep to it, grabbing for the comfort of the old instead, and so missing the ephemeral but precious gifts that only moments spontaneously created have to share. Your whole reality is shaped by this, your perception, and it seems a very simple thing; but truthfully, it is the hardest thing to change. The mind becomes drugged by traversing the same paths day after year after lifetime. We carry the luggage of the eons on our backs and never set it down to enjoy the scenery each moment has to offer. If we would but make our intent to see what we are missing by adhering to the constraints of our mind, we would be aghast at the worlds and universes we have missed! It is time! Time to witness the Magic, the Majesty, the wonders of this world. 

Nature is here for us to explore, for the first time - and again in the next moment, for the very first time - like the first kiss. She is our Beloved, always expectant, with lips puffy and upturned and ready for romance. We can be in that state constantly, there is no need to wait for another for our romantic escapades. We dance our tango with the ever-available fabric of our imagining, and if another would join us, fine; but we never need stop, or hesitate in our mad rush toward bliss. Your faerie stories excite you, you erroneously believe they are the sole denizens of the natural world who may play and cavort nonstop all day every day. But they are only reflections of you - the part of you which you have hidden away under heavy blankets of apathy and depression. These have served you in a sense, to plod through the thick muck of oppression you, as a race of humanity, have heaped upon one another. But in each moment is a choice. The choice is ever-present; but in this moment, it is More Real than your uppermost thoughts. The Choice is for bliss, for magic, for stepping upon the path of the New and walking away from the deeply rutted roadways of the past. It is time, now, to create your own perfect future, your magnificent unfolding. Now.

The fairies create with a sense of Purpose and Joy that is untiring and always grounded in the security of Oneness. Their predilection is no different from yours. You may think that you are separate from nature, from God, from All That Is, but that is only in your thinking. The reality is that you have never been separate; that you have always and in all manners been connected, fully, to the current of love which is the godhead. Whether you feel your heart or not (which is a choosing), you are totally One with Oneness. There is no other way. There is Only One. We see the Ten Thousand Manifestations of Joy and are sideswiped by the distractions of the numberless aspects of One; but it is still One.

The ever-present current of Joy is available to every one, to every creature, and we may embrace that in every moment, even if that moment is steeped in pain and anguish. The joy, the love, is there always as a current to dive headfirst into. It is yours by divine decree. It is yours because You have placed it there. It is yours because that is the nature of the Universe. You have given yourself ultimate Choice in this and in all things, and thus far your choice has been to walk in oblivion. But present moments beckon and promise a much grander panorama of reality than that which you have chosen for too long. And you can have it for a pittance, the casting of a choice. There is no chance in this matter - it is yours for the taking.

It is Yours - for the Taking.

-The Angels